Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-02-14

en- down as a result of his experiences
but otherwise escaped injury.
THE NUMBER OF VICTIMS.
The list of wounded prepared by
DR.. Grinnell does not change the to-
tai number from Sc, of whom Con
| ductor Sturtevant only has died. and
only three others are in a critical
condition. DR.. Brigham has been bus-
liz engaged since Saturday morning
in treating the wounded and has as
| sumed full charge, with an efficient
| corps of assistants. There is here
say evidence of three others injured
who went away Immediately after the
accident. Nearly all the dead show
fractures of the skull and every case
of the wounded shows injury to head
and face. 1t is thought hardly any
person killed was not first stunned bv
the fall and so suffered little from
fire. The number of bodies recover
ed is 81.
The following is the list of those
who have been killed and have been
identified as far as names have been
ascertained
Ed. F. Dillon, Dartmouth.
5. ). Westcott, Burlington.
Frank Wesson, Springfield.
ID. Maigret, Shenanigan, p. Q.
Edward Bangs, brakeman, Leba-
non, n. H.
NJ. r. Burgess, Pullman car con-
ductor.
Miss Nancy Dunbar of Porter's
Station, Somerville, Mass.
Mason Mills, Iroquois, Ont, iden-
titled by watch and ring.
John Hadden, (colored) porter of
Pullman cal, "Pilgrim."
). c. ~Sturtevant, St. Adams, con-
ductor, died Saturday afternoon.
D.. D.. Woodland, Waterbury, Vt.
Charles W. Sanford, formerly of
Washington D. c.
Berangers, brother and sister, of
Holvoke, Mass.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Especial CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoNrroR.1
Washington. Feb. L.
The forty-ninth congress has only
about three weeks more in which to
complete its record. From the prog
ress legislation is making this fact
seems to be realized in both the SEN
ate and House. Very little time has
been wasted this winter by either.
Indeed, the present session has been
an exceptionally industrious one.
In looking over the work of the
past week it will be found that some
appropriation bills were disposed Of
the railroad attorneys bill got thro'
the senate-about a hundred pension
bills were passed, (some of which are
of the kind the president will veto),
and there were debates on such sub
jects as congressional funerals at
public expense, clerks for congress-
men at public expense, civil service
reform under the present administra-
ton, ships, guns, coast defenses, and
on other questions.
A good deal of curiosity is man
ffested To know what tho president
will do with the case of the cOlored
mar from Albany whom he has twice
appointed to be recorder of deeds,
and whom the senate has twice re-
jected. The official notification of
Mr.. Mathews rejection has not vet
been sent to the White House, and.
of course the president will take no
action in the matter until he is so in
formed. The commission issued to
Mr.. Mathews by the president after
the adjournment of the last session
of congress is operative until the end
of the present session unless the pres
ident should nominate some one else
to succeed him. Therefore Mr.. Math-
ews may continue on duty until the
fourth of March.
If the president so desires he can
then appoint him again, and issue a
commission similar to that under
which he now V which will be
valid until the end of the next session
of congress, provided he is neither
confirmed or superseded. There is
nothing to prevent the president from
keeping Mr.. Mathews in office this
way until the close of his administra-
ton if he so desires, but whether it
would be policy for him to defy the
senate's opposition to such an extent,
is quite another question.
Secretary Manning will be subject
ed to some very severe criticism in
the house of representatives because
of his reply to the resolution of in
quiry sent him by the silver men, but
he will not be impeaehed, as threat
ened, for his party in the House
would not allow the matter to go that
far. The authors of the resolution
were much nettled at the secretary's |
attempt to show them that they did
not know what a greenback was ;
that they did not know the difference
between a treasury note, which is now
almost a thing of the past, and a
greenback, which is known to the
law as a United States note, This
allegation of the shallowness of their